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Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the ways of their heart,…Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the wayes of their heart,…
Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the ways of their heart, and in the sight of their eyes; but to remember the Day of Judgment. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, & preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the wayes of their heart, and in the sight of their eyes; but to remember the Day of Judgment. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, & preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Bartholomew Green. Sold by Samuel Phillips, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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Who they are that Hate and cannot but have Sin. The blessed God hates Sin with an Infinite and an Eternal hatred, Psal. 5. 4• Thou art not a God that ha's pleasure in Wickedness. And from thence it is, that He does punish every sin. There never was, […] ever shall be a sin Committed in the Word that shall go unpunished. As for […] that die in their sins, they ⟨p. 99⟩shall be punished with Everlasting […] from the Presence of the Lord, […] from the Glory of His Power. The Righteous Lord will make all Angels and men see that Sin is hateful to Him, in the day when Thousands of Million of […] shall be sent away into Everlasting Punishment And as for the Elect of God, all their […] have been punished in Christ their surety: Since He was pleased to Substitute Himself in their room, and to undertake to Answer for their Crimes, God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for […] Rom. 8. 3•. This was the highest demonstration of Gods hatred of sin that possibly could be. When He spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast down Millions of them from Heaven into Hell for ever, and this for one sin. When He drowned all the men in the World at once excepting one small Family: When He rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorra, casting them alive into Eternal Fire and Vengeance, He let the World see that Sin is abominable to the eyes of His Glory: But His not sparing His own Son was the most astonishing evidence of His Holy Indignation and abhorrence of sin that can be. For Jesus ⟨p. 100⟩Christ the Son of God had no sin of His own, nor was it possible that He should sin, only the Reflection, the Imputation of sin was upon Him, He became a surety for sinners, and then God spared him not, but his Body and his Soul too, was made an Offering for sin: The sorrows of Hell took hold on Him. Shall sin be thus hateful to the Blessed God, and shall we love it? And how does the Lord Jesus Christ hate sin? It was said of him, Thou lovest Righteousness and hatest wickedness,